"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."
"It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony."
— Benjamin Britten
"Music is the strongest form of magic."
"Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music."
— Christian Nestell Bovee
"We are scientists of sound. We're mathematically puttin' it down."
Announcer: Dr. Weird's mystery will be continued shortly. Say, by the way, doctor, is mystery your sole pleasure?
Dr. Weird: Young man, what could be more pleasant...than mystery?
Announcer: Well, music. I mean the kind of music men hum or whistle when they feel on top of the world!